Editing Hepatitis C (section)

== Society and culture ==

{{Update|section|date=July 2020}}

{{See also|List of people with hepatitis C}}
[[World Hepatitis Day]], held on July 28, is coordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Eurosurveillance editorial team | title = World Hepatitis Day 2011 | journal = Euro Surveillance | volume = 16 | issue = 30 | date = July 2011 | pmid = 21813077 | url = http://www.eurosurveillance.org/images/dynamic/EE/V16N30/art19926.pdf | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111125163506/http://eurosurveillance.org/images/dynamic/EE/V16N30/art19926.pdf | archive-date = 2011-11-25 }}</ref> The economic costs of hepatitis C are significant both to the individual and to society. In the United States, the average lifetime cost of the disease was estimated at US$33,407 in 2003<ref name=Cost2006>{{cite journal | vauthors = Wong JB | title = Hepatitis C: cost of illness and considerations for the economic evaluation of antiviral therapies | journal = PharmacoEconomics | volume = 24 | issue = 7 | pages = 661–72 | year = 2006 | pmid = 16802842 | doi = 10.2165/00019053-200624070-00005 | s2cid = 6713508 }}</ref> with the cost of a liver transplant {{as of|2011|lc=y}} costing approximately US$200,000.<ref name=Cost2011 /> In Canada, the cost of a course of antiviral treatment is as high as 30,000 CAD in 2003,<ref>{{cite web|title=Hepatitis C Prevention, Support and Research ProgramHealth Canada|url=http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hepc/pubs/psrpmideval-ppsrevalinter/i_problem-eng.php|publisher=Public Health Agency of Canada|access-date=10 January 2012|date=Nov 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322182718/http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hepc/pubs/psrpmideval-ppsrevalinter/i_problem-eng.php|archive-date=22 March 2011}}</ref> while the United States costs are between 9,200 and US$17,600 in 1998.<ref name=Cost2006 /> In many areas of the world, people cannot afford treatment with antivirals as they either lack insurance coverage or their insurance will not pay for antivirals.<ref>{{cite book| veditors = Thomas H, Lemon S, Zuckerman A |title=Viral Hepatitis|year=2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1-4051-4388-2|pages=532|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nT2dauLXoYAC&pg=PA532|edition=3rd|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617164927/https://books.google.com/books?id=nT2dauLXoYAC&pg=PA532|archive-date=2016-06-17}}</ref> In the [[National Health Service (England)|English National Health Service]] treatment rates for hepatitis C were higher among less deprived groups in 2010–2012.<ref name=UK2015>{{cite news|title=Commissioning supplement: Health inequalities tell a tale of data neglect| vauthors = Blackledge C |url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/resource-centre/supplements/commissioning-supplement-health-inequalities-tell-a-tale-of-data-neglect/5083351.article|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=19 March 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150728084950/http://www.hsj.co.uk/resource-centre/supplements/commissioning-supplement-health-inequalities-tell-a-tale-of-data-neglect/5083351.article|archive-date=28 July 2015}}</ref>

Hepatitis C–infected Spanish anaesthetist [[Juan Maeso]] was jailed for the maximum possible period of 20 years for infecting 275 patients between 1988 and 1997, as he used the same needles to give both himself and the patients opioids.<ref>{{cite news|title=Spanish Anesthetist Infected Patients|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500921.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=15 May 2007|agency=Associated Press|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822072146/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500921.html|archive-date=22 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Spanish Hep C anaesthetist jailed|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6657509.stm|work=BBC|date=15 May 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023220711/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6657509.stm|archive-date=23 October 2007}}</ref>